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mastery

A spark awakens,
not mine, not the world’s
simply the way unfolding,
like dawn upon still waters.

Through soil and root
patience takes hold;
stone yields,
and the mountain breathes with me.

The river guides my hands
its current teaches
to flow without grasping,
to bear strength in quietness.

As seasons turn,
the form refines itself.
What I thought I shaped
was always shaping me.

The wind lifts me upward;
clouds open their gates.
In their vastness
I forget where I end and they begin.

Now art and heart are one pulse,
moving as tide,
resting as stone,
alive in the silence between breaths.

Transcendence is not departure,
but returning
the first spark,
endless in its shining.

progression

may concedes to june
when spring rebirth is complete
the time to mature -
grassy hills turn verdant green
blossoms explode with color

july soon refines
june's promise of fulfillment
expanding its gifts -
fuller and vibrant glory
paints the mature summertime

late august moves in
heading towards surrender
come autumn's flurry -
fading greens and colors hush
on their way to winter sleep

MY GOD SO LOVES ME-

My God so loves me
Father so loves me;
Refines me I am His
His righteousness
He forgives me all my sins;
I am a child of is;
He is my hope when it's hopeless;

Father so loves me;
He's ever there for me always;
Beautiful His actions are;
Provides every and all, my needs

And when I'm alone;
I embrace and talk unto Him;
Him righteousness my sins;

he's has oh woo-hoo-oh;
He has my God so loves me;

7/21/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©

You Are More Than Your Wounds - A Whisper of Strength

Pain refines, 
but grace restores.
This is the whisper 
of strength.

There are days
when the world feels heavy, 
when the echoes of yesterday 
press against the walls of today. 
You walk forward, 
yet the past lingers like a shadow . . . 
a silent presence 
reminding you 
where you’ve been.

But hear this: 
You are not bound 
by what was. 
You are shaped 
by your resilience, 
by the moments 
when you chose to rise, 
even when 
the weight of it all 
begged you 
to fall.

Pain has touched you, 
but it has not 
broken you. 
Instead, 
it carved wisdom
into your bones, 
strength 
into your spirit, 
and grace 
into your steps. 
Healing comes.

Whatever storm
you walk through now, 
it is not here 
to consume you. 
It is here 
to remind you 
of the fire within, 
the unwavering light 
that refuses to dim. 
Rescue comes.

And in this chapter . . . 
you choose to rise.

Let these words 
settle within you. 
Breathe in 
strength, 
exhale 
doubt. 
You are seen, 
you are heard, 
and 
you are never alone.

Becoming Who I Am

Every challenge,
Every heartbreak,
Every struggle I've endured,
Shaped me the person I become
I let pain defines me,
I allow pain to refines me, 
I learned healing isn't about
Erasing the past but integrating lessons,
Reclaiming power and using my story
To uplift others to know life's purpose.

I Am

the clockwise spiral
withdraws the universe
manifestation and movement 
making potential all that is kinetic
humming at a stillness point
at core of consciousness 
being the eternal I Am

then the exhalation
creative energy in motion
allows dream forms to dance
in the template of sacred geometry 
wherein I Am all that is manifest
present as love’s heartbeat
within each earth entity

repeated immersions
into whirlpools of duality 
gradually refines sensibilities 
of eternal light of Self which I Am
that merging into heart of God
I glisten therein like a gem
radiating love and light

Hidden Growth

Fearless as it stands to understand,
Is placing all and everything into my hands,
Not knowing you feel is an empty spot,
Is just the space in between where fear is not,
Hope replaces and refines with time,
And brings you love and peace of mind,
When watered the flower blossoms right on time,
While underneath the earth it's growing and hides,

It shall be well

The routine just became daunting 
Straining, overbearing and exhausting 
Yet it is the current blessing I should celebrate 
That drains much strength just to navigate 
But since our world has seen so little good 
I try to not seem from a spoilt brood
And only to God can I present my case
For bare truth be rife when a man prays

I ask all I wish and ask it be His will
Lest I ask not and my joy knows no fill
I repeat again and again till it appears 
To the affirming of faith reigning over the fears
It shall be well so long as He leads
For He refines, He guides, He speeds
And the way I will lift and fly past
Will be above the best lot ever cast.

K. Muitherero

Difficulty is what wakes up the Genius

The abounding nature of a problem is the emblem of certainty 
Witty and Brave is a product that lives among humanity
The glory of your story can be found in the difficulty!
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius in the face of adversity

Humans can cope
Holding on to the rope of certainty is a matter of faith!
Therefore, you can use pressure to rise above any situation
Because the treasure inside of you must
Come out through the evolution of pressure!
The fragility of time refines the process
And defines the courage that rages on inside the difficulty
The resilience of innovation is embedded in your imagination and
The abounding nature of a problem is the emblem of certainty 
Witty and Brave is a product that lives among humanity
The glory of your story can be found in the difficulty!
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius in the face of adversity

Mark Frank

Copyright 2023

Searching for you

These wounds brought me here
Searching for you from despair 
Opportunity made me believed 
That from pain, I can be relived 

Time refines the images of mine,
A mission to places in the mind
Wrestling through dark moods
Dreams of  what the future holds

Wishful thinking with the imagery
Arrives to meet desire and reality
wandering ways cascading ache 
That ponders over a hapless fate

True love is illusive and beguile 
make you happy for a little while 
And it almost makes you cry
Immediately when the feelings die

Falling for the pieces of possibilities 
With every phrase comes difficulties
Searching for all the correct answers 
Finding only more unresolved issues

I Search

I care, I search, beyond the veil,

Through starlit skies, where comets trail.

Through boundless dreams, where hopes reside,

To realms unseen, where secrets hide.


I seek the echoes of forgotten words,

The whispers carried by the singing birds.

I care, I search, on rugged shores,

For treasures lost and love that soars.

Amongst the ruins of shattered dreams,

I listen closely to whispers of unseen gleams.


In crowded streets, where shadows dwell,

I strive to break the chains of self,

To touch the core of human grace,

And find connection, face to face.


I care, I search, with every breath,

To bridge the gaps of life and death.

To shape my world with love and care,

And find the answers I long to share.


For in this quest, my soul refines,

As I traverse the limits of space and time.

I care, I search, with unwavering zeal,

To unlock the mysteries that my heart feels

A Sweet Secret

A sweet secret 

Waves of depression without waste of opportunity,
Trade with season of whiff of irritation,
Worthy mentioned  whirlwind of smoke,
Animates to weight the wiles of innocence,
Tracing the bitterness with a touch of severity,
Train of disasters then  transfer factors of agony,
Sweeping the land of tempest of passion, 
Surface of events tides the surge of pathos, 
slough of ignorance shackles an approach  of fate, 
A summit of misery with the scrap of adversity, 
Staves all rains of life in formless dread,
Rectitude of soul freezes at the thought,
Relishing of its beauty refines the style, 
When ravages of time delves crumpled pain, 
Qualm of conscience still seems in radiance of morning, 
 At dusk a ray of hope of peace, 
With the pendulum of great feeling of worthy , 
Pules the progress of events with miracles,
Agitation in a sense of meditative content takes,
Sighs at a large contentment over the place,
With a solemn glee possessing utterance of destiny.

Sajid Hussain Pakistan ©

Yangyin

Complex 1 out/in polarity
for and of
chaotic not 0 holistic
in/out core dipolarity.

We may need to tolerate
survival of the win/lose fittest
1.

And yet want to invite
thrival of the win/win fit-in-ingest
cooperative 
co-invested
perfectly balanced 0 soul

Co-arising 1 dipolar relationship
correlating round golden health
with win/win safety rules
for healthy-wombed 
pregnant 0

Sentient non-0 souls
verbally dominant yang bodies
knowing 1's own yin-mind

1 knows
0-ego soul
+knows
and can not(-) yet feel
not not tipping points

Dipolar co-arising
co-investing in-between fully resilient
1/0 double-binding win/win
balancing empty entropic
x pole defines y hole
refines 1x
confines 0 not(-) yintegrity
loves fine yang 1(+)
nondual non-dueling integrity

As empty sentient minds
erupt embodied sensory feelings

Past 1 ego positive memories
evoke eco-future not-0
Earth-souled images

Complex bipolar 1's
for space and of time
1 mountainous body 
and 0 bilateral valleyed mind
not empty hole
whole round spiraling 0

Looking for some compassionate
action
zone communion systems.

Respect For the Sunken Sea

Respect for the Sunken Sea
David J Walker

Call home the bison to blacken 
And roam freely the prairie floor 

Once more as if farms failed and
Farmer flailed about a desperate ruin 

The rains run north or south but never 
Here nor never there 

The dry air invites the sun to 
Turn the towns left to rust

Into the dust of simmered measures of
Unremembered history 

Call home the eventual grasses guarding
The parched ground where the

Sound of the wind winds and refines
The prayers offered to departed fathers

The passing path is shrouded in silence

Why Meaning Refines Purpose

Why did you think then
and
Why do you feel now

You are OK to park here?
drive here?
breathe in here?
stop breathing out here?
love here?
live here?
eat here?
defecate here?
urinate here?
peak here?
fall apart here?
exercise here?
sleep here?
practice here?
reflect here?
act here?
heal here?
destroy here?
appeal here?
repeal here?
unravel here?
reweave here?
fornicate here?
make love here?

Play here as now?
Work here, and now?
Demand here, more now?
Invite here as now?
Initiate here, and now?
Conclude here is also now?
Breed here as now?
Feed here, and now?
Devour here, more now?
Regurgitate here feels now?
Learn here, as now?
Teach here and now?
Meditate here now?
Preach here is now?
Prophecy here will become back there?

Exhort here as now?
Impress here for now?
Repress here against now?
Suppress here was also now?
Oppress here loves now?
Invest here and now?
Divest here as not now?

As compared to there?
As part of liberally rooted 
thinking Now
conserving felt back Then.

Convicted healthy Presence
without condemning 
unwealthy Other.

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